MossRoad
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But a lot of 2wd SUVs. Which is just weird.
I have owned my last 2 wheel drive pickup
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jyoutz
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Us mountain folks would consider your tilted ground to be flat.I live in the Midwest and have plenty of "tilted" ground....
jyoutz
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Very true. That’s why it’s best to own valley land in the mountains.Yep and us Midwest folks would consider your mountain ground hard to farm.
Bearsixty7
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That looks like a case of street tread tires and no lockers. Tires that are nice and quiet on the road and on wet pavement conditions are never any good in wet grass and mud. A better all-terrain or even better a mud tire and lockers front and rear and you would probably just drove out of that situation, well if you locked the lockers prior to spinning and digging in too deep.
Steering is all well and good, and ABS allows you to choose what you want to hit. Personally, I prefer to stop before that happens. Even your owner’s manual says that it can lengthen your stopping distance. The only time that I slam on the brakes and do white knuckle steering is because the damned brakes won’t work. Sometimes in snow you do need to drag them a bit, so that the tires can cut through the snow to something more solid. I was well accustomed to pumping the brakes, and/or applying them until they just started to break loose, then back off. For a time I used the same tactics, backing off the brakes just before the ABS engaged. I was a long time breaking myself of that habit.
When I got my first company truck I was used to driving without ABS... as I had disabled it in my truck. One snowy day I was coming up on a stop sign and the truck wasn’t even slowing down. While fruitlessly stomping on the brakes as hard as I could I reached down and slammed it into 4WD, then eased on the parking brake. Instead of 0 wheels braking I had 4; and the truck stopped so quickly that I’m lucky nobody was behind me.
DK35vince
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Some like ABS.
I'm not one of them.
My truck doesn't have it, and on our car its been disabled
I'm not one of them.
My truck doesn't have it, and on our car its been disabled
CobyRupert
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ABS is the worst and a danger when trying to stop on ice. It reduces braking and you have less stopping power than if you were skidding.
I find that if you pump the brakes you can get a little braking before the ABS kicks on and reduces the braking.
So basically you do manually what ABS is suppose to be good at, but is terrible at on ice.
I find that if you pump the brakes you can get a little braking before the ABS kicks on and reduces the braking.
So basically you do manually what ABS is suppose to be good at, but is terrible at on ice.